How many taxpayers will enjoy the benefits of HS2?

Keith Rogers, Stockport SK7
27 May 2016
 

Graham Nalty makes some good points about HS2 (Letters LTT 13 May). May I add two more? 

Firstly, high-speed results not just from a good route alignment and a high design speed but also a service pattern with few intermediate calls. To put it another way, HS2 as currently planned enables few of the taxpayers who would fund it to actually benefit from it. Indeed, some would be worse off. For example, Leicester has good train services to London, Nottingham and Sheffield because the...

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